We are continuingour coverage of the Olympics using Newsdesk to understand how the top Olympic sponsors at the London Games are benefiting from their advertising dollars and pounds.
Visa is hoping that there is no such thing as bad publicity after a system malfunction left spectators unable to pay with their Visa cards at Wembley Stadium. Unfortunately, as a condition of their sponsorship, Visa is the only accepted credit card at the 2012 Olympics, leading to long lines for concessions and disgruntled visitors.
This mishap was the main feature on dozens of sites and gained a passing mention in many more.
[Visa] introduced a new congratulatory commercial celebrating Emilie Heyman’s bronze medal performance in women’s synchronized 3-metre springboard at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The spot, entitled “Congratulations Emilie,” aired on Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium and features an image of Emilie on the podium in London.
Visa had more coverage than Coke and GE combined.
Our medalists for most news coverage on the 30th of July are:
Gold: Visa
Silver: Coke
Bronze: GE
After taking Bronze over the weekend, Samsung did not place in the top 3 today and GE won their first medal.
What is your opinion about Visa’s sponsorship? Even with the troubles at Wembley, was it still a good move to have a monopoly on payments at the games? Tell us in the comments!
During this Olympics, we are looking at which corporate sponsors are getting the most bang for their advertising buck. In the spirit of the Games, each day we are using Newsdesk to examine different ways the top 3 companies, ranked by coverage, are getting extra buzz in the news from Olympics.
Chart generated in Newsdesk showing the weekend coverage of the top 3 Olympic sponsors
This weekend’s top 3:
Gold: Coke
Silver: Visa
Bronze: Samsung
While Coke came out on top, all 3 of these sponsors seem to benefit largely from being the top sponsors rather than just sponsors. Much of the news coverage that mentions sponsorship of the Olympics uses at least one of these companies as an example. This is likely due in part to already being recognizable brands, though the amount of money paid by sponsors is a story in and of itself.
Also, as we live in a world of syndication, it only takes a few articles like this to be republished by dozens of other outlets, making its way into blogs and other social media.
Does this reflect your experience in watching and discussing the Olympics? Are there other companies that you feel should have ranked above these 3? Tell us in the comments.
Tracking the Top Olympic Sponsors: Who Will the Big Winners Be?
As the opening ceremony of the Games of the XXX Olympiad kicks off this evening, billions of people in more than 200 countries and territories will be watching. Without a doubt, the Olympics are the biggest sporting event on the planet. And according to the official Olympics’ website ”one of the most effective international marketing platforms in the world.” But what does “most effective” mean for the 11 worldwide sponsors of this year’s Olympics?
To see who gets the most bang for their buck, we’re monitoring the media coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Sponsors: ACER, ATOS, Coke, DOW, GE, McDonalds, Omega, Panasonic, P&G, Samsung, and Visa.
With the help of our award-winning news and research tool, Newsdesk (read about how the top sponsors develop their campaigns), we’ll be mining the data and stories and reporting back to you on how the companies and brands are making out. From traditional news and social media mentions to online reputation management, over the course of the games, we’ll look at what this year’s sponsors are getting for spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars tying their brand to the Olympic rings.
So check back here every day for our updated analysis. Let us know in the comments what you would like us to examine.
We have just rolled out new changes to Newsdesk to facilitate your media monitoring efforts.
Improvements to User Comments on the Dashboard
You can now see which articles have comments from other users directly on the Dashboard widgets. Click the icon next to an article to see the discussion from colleagues about a news topic and to add your own comments.
New Article and Source Metadata in Feed Export
The Rich Atom feed now provides additional metadata about the source and the article. It can be used to build up a client-side index of articles for more detailed media analytics.
It also allows clients to offer a richer end-user experience by displaying more information alongside article headlines, such as the country of a source.
Here is an example of an article with the new tagging:
<entry>
<title type=”html”>Olympic and Paralympic Values – Excellence week</title>
<link rel=”alternate” href=”https://newsdesk.moreover.com/linkToStory/ />
<link rel=”enclosure” href=”http://site.com/image.png” />
<id>https:/newsdesk.moreover.com/linkToStory</id>
<updated>2012-07-12T17:57:00Z</updated>
<published>2012-07-12T17:57:00Z</published>
<summary type=”html”>Olympic and Paralympic Values: Excellence week. On June 11, World Class kicked off seven weeks of Olympic-themed content in our buildup to the London 2012 Olympic Games…
</summary>
<source>
<title>BBC</title> manually indent these a little more
<link rel=”alternate” href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk” />
</source>
<m:article_id>6817501983</m:article_id>
<m:language>English</m:language>
<m:publisher>British Broadcasting Corporation</m:publisher>
<m:source_rank>1</m:source_rank>
<m:source_category>National</m:source_category>
<m:source_sections>
<m:source_section>Society</m:source_section>
<m:source_section>Standard</m:source_section>
</m:source_sections>
<m:region>Europe</m:region>
<m:subregion>Northern Europe</m:subregion>
<m:country>United Kingdom</m:country>
<m:feed_class>News</m:feed_class>
<m:stock_tickers>
<m:stock_ticker>XSTU:ITJ</m:stock_ticker>
<m:stock_ticker>XMUN:ITJ</m:stock_ticker>
<m:stock_ticker>XFRA:ITJ</m:stock_ticker>
<m:stock_ticker>XBER:ITJ</m:stock_ticker>
<m:stock_ticker>XTKS:4951</m:stock_ticker>
</m:stock_tickers>
<m:topics>
<m:topic>Sports: London 2012 news</m:topic>
<m:topic>Sports: latest</m:topic>
<m:topic>Society news</m:topic>
</m:topics>
</entry>
Online reputation management (or monitoring) is the practice of monitoring the Internet reputation of a person, brand or business, with the goal of emphasising positive coverage rather than negative reviews or feedback.
Who should be doing it?
Anyone that has a presence online. If people are talking about you, you have a reputation. You can keep it from turning sour or maybe even turn things around.
When?
You should be engaging your critics as soon as they post their feedback. Many tools have configurable email or RSS alerts that notify you once your name has been mentioned.
Where?
With exploding social media, conversations about your brand can take place anywhere. Make sure you’re covering:
People are becoming much more savvy about researching products and services before they buy. Negative feedback about your brand can be costing you sales. Catching things early before they spiral out of control can save you a lot of headaches down the road.
Bonus non-W: How?
There are a wide variety of tools available to track mentions about you and your company. Find the places online where people are talking about you and engage them positively.
On Wednesday 4th July, Moreover will be making a change to the way in which News article extracts are presented in the Newsdesk and Search Engine Toolkit products.
Currently the extract appears in non-paragraphed format within the source code of any RSS, TSV, Atom, or HTML feed that is using News content. Starting on the 4th of July, paragraph breaks will be included (where present) in the text of the extract.
Please note that all other media types which make up our Social Media coverage (Blogs, Comments, Social Networks, Forums, etc.) already output in this format.
We do not expect there to be any issues for our clients as a result of this change, but if you have any questions about this upcoming update, please contact your Client Services Representative.
Share, Clip, or Delete articles directly from the dashboard.
More functionality at your fingertips. You can now use the Dashboard to edit feeds (clip & remove stories), comment on articles, and share headlines with colleagues (email and Yammer) or the world (Twitter).
Along with the ability to set the number of headlines in widgets, this update really turns the Dashboard from a ‘read-only’ section into a functional area where you can quickly check, edit and share stories across multiple feeds at once.
Easier-to-read saved feed names.
Easier than ever to identify which feeds are which, especially ones with longer names.
Broadcast info at a glance.
Broadcast clips now include the time of the clip in the headline title, in the local timezone, helping customers understand at what time the keywords and phrases they are tracking were broadcast to audiences.
Broadcast clips now show paragraph breaks in the transcript text where close captioning includes the relevant mark-up, making it easier to scan the video transcripts.
We are proud to be featured in this month’s edition of Communicate Magazine, with a piece that we think perfectly describes the imperative for distributing media intelligence across the organization to all employees.
In the article, we argue the following key points:
Evidence shows that business decisions based on data as well as intuition increases productivity by 5-6% on average
Sharing media intelligence across the organization can be a key driver for making more informed business decisions and raising productivity
The free, consumer-focused search engines have proven to be time-consuming, cumbersome tools when it comes to distilling pertinent business news
Providing a centralized media intelligence service to the company, with all business news available in one search engine and one interface, is more effective than delivering content in a fragmented way or expecting employees to go it alone
Tools such as Moreover’s Newsdesk service offer librarians, marketing and communications teams the opportunity to turn external mass media into competitive advantage by filtering and sharing highly targeted business news directly within people’s day-to-day workflow
Media intelligence continues to trend as a hot topic, with new services and publisher arrangements opening up exciting possibilities for turning mass media into valuable business insight.
If you would like to find out more about Moreover’s media intelligence offerings, including the 3x award-winning Newsdesk service, then visit our website or drop us a line - we’ll be glad to explore your requirements with you.
Today’s companies operate in a world of Internet-driven mass media with the power to shape our perceptions and blindside company reputations. At Moreover, our job is to help you turn this media maelstrom into market intelligence for competitive advantage.
In this series of posts, we’ll be going through the multiple aspects of a successful media intelligence strategy, and offer concrete advice and insight for turning global news and social media into a powerful strategic asset.
Part 2 – Drive Informed Decision-Making with Company-Wide News Distribution
A 2011 study from the Sloan School of Management, MIT, entitled ‘Strength in Numbers: How Does Data-Driven Decision Making Affect Firm Performance‘, showed that companies that had adopted “data-driven decision making” achieved productivity gains of 5-6% in comparison to companies that remained focused on experience and intuition. Enough of a difference, according to the authors, to “separate winners from losers in most industries”.
It is clear, then, that timely access to key news sources is crucial. Of course, information professionals and corporate librarians have long provided this important function for businesses. But media consumption habits have changed dramatically over the last 15 years. Decision makers up and down the organization now expect the experience of the Web: Fast, hyperlinked, and on-demand.
Companies that extended the original librarian-focused news services to the rest of the organization often found themselves with ballooning costs – businesses were suddenly paying a premium for all-embracing publisher licenses when a timely link to a news website would have sufficed. At the other extreme, employees have been left to fend for themselves, with Google News the de facto service provider. But ultimately, as research by Outsell showed, consumer-focused search engines fail to serve business needs, with too much time wasted on sifting through irrelevant results.
Consequently, new media intelligence services have emerged, combining the immediacy of a Google type service with the imperatives of a business audience. Company-wide news distribution that is personalized to department and even down to individual employee level is increasingly the norm, with businesses now actively managing the consumption of news within the organization.
Here are three key features to look for in a successful media intelligence solution focused on company-wide news sharing:
Flexible news distribution options. The ability to serve business news through a variety of channels will improve the user experience and its effectiveness. Ideally, information is provided to users directly within the work-flow at point of use. Make sure that your media intelligence service supports automated email alerts, hand-edited newsletters, RSS feeds, and potentially an API to directly integrate business news on the intranet.
Powerful business-focused search filters. The ability to curate highly focused search results that can be individually tailored to specific audiences is absolutely paramount. The aim is for every single article to be relevant. To achieve this, you need powerful filtering options, including the ability to segment the media (e.g. regional vs national vs trade), select or block specific sources, emphasize particular keywords, and remove duplicate articles such as press releases.
Worldwide media coverage with custom source additions. A successful solution must satisfy the diverse information needs within a company, stretching across industries, professions, countries and languages, from mainstream topics to highly individualized interests. In order to cater to special interests and new projects, you must be able to add new sources on request at relatively short notice, including private publisher licenses.
Turning mass media it into actionable media intelligence is a fascinating opportunity for companies chasing productivity gains and competitive advantage. At Moreover Technologies we have made it our mission to help companies succeed at this challenge, with the award-winning Newsdesk servicedesigned specifically for this purpose.
If you’d like to learn more about Newsdesk and how Moreover helps corporate communications and information professionals achieve results, then contact us or visit our website for details.
Next post:
Part 3 – The Power of Consolidating Media Access Through a Single Enterprise News Hub
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